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#ProxPatch for #Proxmox VE Clusters!

Automate the most repetitive operational task in Proxmox: keeping cluster nodes updated! ProxPatch drains, migrates, patches, and reboots nodes in a controlled rolling fashion — no downtime, no manual intervention.

ProxPatch is written in Rust and fully #opensource.

Website: https://proxpatch.de
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxPatch

#PVE #homelab #enterprise #Debian #PatchManagement #ProxmoxVE #Security #ProxLB #SecurityUpdateManagement #Automation #Rustlang

GitHub

GitHub - gyptazy/ProxPatch: ProxPatch is a lightweight, automation-first patch orchestration tool for Proxmox VE clusters. It performs rolling security updates across nodes, safely migrates running VMs, reboots when required, and keeps cluster downtime to a minimum.

ProxPatch is a lightweight, automation-first patch orchestration tool for Proxmox VE clusters. It performs rolling security updates across nodes, safely migrates running VMs, reboots when require...

gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com · 4 days ago

GitHub

ProxPatch is a lightweight, automation-first patch orchestration tool for Proxmox VE clusters. It performs rolling security updates across nodes, safely migrates running VMs, reboots when require...

Thomas Steen Rasmussen

@tykling@mastodon.social · last week

I would love some recommendations for #bhyve webmanagement frontends? Is there anything #proxmox like yet? #freebsd

Box464 - Hire me!

@box464@mastodon.social · last week

Pretty wild Thursday night, y'all. HomeLab ProxMox upgrade from 8.4 to 9.1.

#HomeLab #ProxMox

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DB Tech

@dbtechyt@fosstodon.org · last week

What are your current uptimes for your homelab? Here are a couple of mine!

#homelab #selfhosting #proxmox

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gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com · last week

The #ProxLB for #Proxmox Discord chat just moved to a new location!

As several people on Discord’s free plan are limited to join servers, I merged them all into a single one with different rooms. The new one is also for all ProxTools like #ProxLB, #ProxSnap, #ProxCLMC, #ProxWall and other projects!

You can simply join at: https://discord.gg/p9UxdMnx

PS: The #IRC and #Matrix bridge will be recreated asap!

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gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com · 2 weeks ago

Running a single user or small user instance in the #Fediverse? A relay instance can help you to find more interesting content and to broadcast to other instances!

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com is a tech related relay instance that connects over 100 instances, focussing on things like #FreeBSD, #BGP, #IPv6, #Proxmox, #Homelab, #Linux and many other things! You can easily add a really when using #snac / #snac2, #mastodon, #pleroma and many other ones!

#community #activitypub #socialmedia #fedi #fediwall #relay #opensource #tech #federated #social

gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com · 2 weeks ago

Chewie

@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net · 3 weeks ago

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) is on again this Thursday (12th) in #Manchester.

The talk will be by Lewis Hill, ‘Migrating from VMWare to Proxmox’:

"We’re very excited to hear from Lewis, who is coming to us with his first talk, and it’s on a really pertinent subject for more than a few of us. Not one to miss!"

Go and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

Chewie

@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net · 2 weeks ago

We had 3 presenters tonight.

The first one was Colin from #Linx Manchester talking about their infrastructure.

Linda Shannon then gave a quick talk about #RIPE92 in May. Get your tickets and see the schedule (when it's out) here: https://ripe92.ripe.net/

Then the talk I was really coming for, from Lewis Hill (https://lewishill.xyz/) about migrating from #VMWare to #Proxmox, which was pretty interesting.
I've never used it myself.
If I was starting again with selfhosting, I would definitely have tried it.

He said he would publish the slides on his website later
I think this one was the most well attended #NetMCR - overhearing Toms' counting, I think it was nearly 40!

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Colin with a slide talking about their infrastructure capacity in Manchester:

6 DCs via 4 DC Partners
Can connect directly from any of these DCs via cross connect
Multiple Connexions partners present
130 members connected in
6.491Tb of connected capacity (ports)
Due for a technical refresh in 2026
Lunar announced today as full PoP
Peak traffic levels of >900Gbps — Colin with a slide talking about their infrastructure capacity in Manchester: 6 DCs via 4 DC Partners Can connect directly from any of these DCs via cross connect Multiple Connexions partners present 130 members connected in 6.491Tb of connected capacity (ports) Due for a technical refresh in 2026 Lunar announced today as full PoP Peak traffic levels of >900Gbps

Linda Shannon have a Lightning Talk about this year's RIPE in May in Edinburgh

A slide from Lewis' talk, outlining some of the disadvantages of Proxmox:

DISADVANTAGES OF MOVING TO PROXMOX
No proper 'DRS' or Distributed Resource Scheduling to balance resources on hosts
No 24/7 business support from Proxmox direct
Not many UK distributors for licensing
Some vendors are still wary of offering full 'support' for Proxmox... even when their software works perfectly fine
Lacks some nice to have OEM integration like hardware monitoring within the Proxmox UI
Some nuances with deciding CPU types for your VM's if you have mixed clusters with different CPU generations — A slide from Lewis' talk, outlining some of the disadvantages of Proxmox: DISADVANTAGES OF MOVING TO PROXMOX No proper 'DRS' or Distributed Resource Scheduling to balance resources on hosts No 24/7 business support from Proxmox direct Not many UK distributors for licensing Some vendors are still wary of offering full 'support' for Proxmox... even when their software works perfectly fine Lacks some nice to have OEM integration like hardware monitoring within the Proxmox UI Some nuances with deciding CPU types for your VM's if you have mixed clusters with different CPU generations

Esparta :ruby:

@esparta@ruby.social · 2 weeks ago

our family continues growing
I've configured a #Proxmox cluster where I'm adding the physical machines as Proxmox nodes in order to enable High Availability - if I ever need it, for now I'm only having an unified interface.

an screenshot of my house's Proxmox. I've configured a cluster where I'm adding the physical machines as Proxmox nodes in order to enable High Availability - if I ever need it, for now I'm only having an unified interface.

top: PROXMOX Virtual Environment 9.1.4
left panel (Sever View)
- Datacenter (lab)
- pve001
- pve002 — an screenshot of my house's Proxmox. I've configured a cluster where I'm adding the physical machines as Proxmox nodes in order to enable High Availability - if I ever need it, for now I'm only having an unified interface. top: PROXMOX Virtual Environment 9.1.4 left panel (Sever View) - Datacenter (lab) - pve001 - pve002

Shawn Hooper (he/him)

@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org · 3 weeks ago

Time to get this Home Lab project underway.

#homelab #proxmox

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Chris Allegretta

@chrisa@gts.asty.org · 3 weeks ago

I am going to do a writeup on the #Freedombox #Debian blend (I've inaccurately calling it a 'spin', heh) for my blog. It's been an interesting year+ with hosting and self-hosting. #Proxmox continues to dominate my personal and work installations.

I also want to do a write up about Netbird, but think I need to mess a little more with HeadScale and Nebula before that. VM backups (like X TB worth) to a server behind a restrictive FW seems to be the hardest part for these mesh/vpns to get and stay working reliably. But overall I already can't imagine my life without Netbird, it's so nice to have a GUI for private network allow/deny rules and just letting go of having to route everything through firewall port forwarding.

Chris Allegretta

@chrisa@gts.asty.org · 3 weeks ago

David Vasandani boosted

Sean Hood

@seanhood@hachyderm.io · 3 weeks ago

So I saw a blog post linked on here the other week about someone's homelab where they use #Incus to run all their containers and VMs. And I've fallen into the rabbit hole.

That post: https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/

Anyway, Incus is the fork/successor to #LXD which as recently as last year they released #IncusOS which is a very slimmed down OS for running multiple types of containers and VMs. A bit like #Proxmox in a sense.

What I like about the distro:
- Immutable
- A-side/B-side partition layout for friendlier updates
- Requires Secure Boot + TPM, resulting in encrypted drives by default
- ZFS. I've loved ZFS for many years.

It really seems like this was built for edge type deployments where secure "appliance" like things really excel yet still a net benefit elsewhere.

Since vSphere was killed, this feels pretty damn close to what I liked about it.

Can already run VMs along side "System Containers" (shared kernel + init system) and "App Containers" (what everyone calls "Docker"). I see on the roadmap support for MicroVMs (OCI container + individual kernel).

I run all of my stuff bar storage on #k3s on baremetal but there's times when I need a VM or different container behaviour than it offers.

Morten Linderud

Personal infrastructure setup 2026

While starting this post I realized I have been maintaining personal infrastructure for over a decade! Most of the things I’ve self-hosted is been for personal uses. Email server, a blog, an IRC server, image hosting, RSS reader and so on. All of these things has all been a bit all over the place and never properly streamlined. Some has been in containers, some has just been flat files with a nginx service in front and some has been a random installed Debian package from somewhere I just forgot.

Sean Hood

@seanhood@hachyderm.io · 3 weeks ago

So I saw a blog post linked on here the other week about someone's homelab where they use #Incus to run all their containers and VMs. And I've fallen into the rabbit hole.

That post: https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/

It really seems like this was built for edge type deployments where secure "appliance" like things really excel yet still a net benefit elsewhere.

Since vSphere was killed, this feels pretty damn close to what I liked about it.

I run all of my stuff bar storage on #k3s on baremetal but there's times when I need a VM or different container behaviour than it offers.

Morten Linderud

Personal infrastructure setup 2026

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gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com · 4 weeks ago

FOSDEM 2026 - The first day is over and I summarized the day...

Like always, I'm attending only the first day which mean the day begins very early in the morning. This year, #Sovereignty was clearly one of the most important topics, but I also had some great talks at the #Proxmox stand, with the guys at Vates ( #XCPng) and of course at the #FreeBSD and #illumos stand. Sadly, they were in the very last corner of the floor hall in building H. Hope they still got enough attention there!

You can find my notes about the first day in my blog post at: https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #opensource #brussels #conference

FOSDEM 2026 – Open Source, Digital Sovereignty, and Europes Future

A recap of FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, focusing on open source as a foundation for European digital sovereignty, community-driven innovation, BSD and Linux ecosystems, and the future of free software in Europe.

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